. The young sportsman's manual : or, recreations in shooting ; with some account of the game found in the British Islands, and practical directions for the management of dog and gun . reting to nets isbutcheiy, as relates to the smaller animals. To putthe hand into a contrivance such as they boil cab-bages in, and squeeze to death a soft, inoffensivelittle animal, such as one might imagine a kitten inparadise to be, is certainly not a recreation worthy atime knight. Rabbit shooting, where it may be had asa wild sport, even if unaccompanied with the quick dashand excitement, for which it is dis
. The young sportsman's manual : or, recreations in shooting ; with some account of the game found in the British Islands, and practical directions for the management of dog and gun . reting to nets isbutcheiy, as relates to the smaller animals. To putthe hand into a contrivance such as they boil cab-bages in, and squeeze to death a soft, inoffensivelittle animal, such as one might imagine a kitten inparadise to be, is certainly not a recreation worthy atime knight. Rabbit shooting, where it may be had asa wild sport, even if unaccompanied with the quick dashand excitement, for which it is distinguished under itsmost favourable aspect, is at all events divested of thefire-side flavour of grimalkinism: is very neat practicefor the young shooter, and certainly not beneath thedignity of his ambition. But if got up in a warrenfor sixpence a blaze, offal in, with a kill (the warreneralways stipulates for the skin), there is something init singularly infra dig. A gun is neither a conve-nient nor a fitting agent in a warren, nor rabbitshooting the sport of a gentleman anywiiere, save inwild woodlands, or such rural districts as disencumberit of all apropos of onion ^^%^^ THE RAECIT. THE OLDEN BRITISH RABBITOF ENGLISH AUTHORS. Rabbit fanciers specify four kinds, or varieties, ofthe common rabbit: warreners, parkers, hedgehogs,and sweethearts; but the endless diversities, kno\^Tito those who take an interest in these busy littleanimals, would fill a volume to describe. Thegreatest variety is found in the domesticated rabbit,or sweetheart. It is of this kind from which isfattened the j)rize, or monster rabbit, that has beenknown to exceed fifteen pomids in weight, on sin-gular occasions ; and which often weighs ten pounds. THE RABBIT. 137 Of the warrener we have seen the largest specmiensin the Isle of Wight, where, in the lonely districtsaround Alum Bay and Freshwater, these creaturesappear to enjoy an Eden of their own : their innu-merable little heads a
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